stoned curiosity and amphetamine focus
 

is the best way to get work done.



unless you're on NC instead of doing your work. anyone wanna finish my hw?

Adderall and Mary

you got it.

tussionex. pure liquid hydrocodone. opiate blanked loaded with energy.

I'll look into that. how do you get a scrip for that?

i did too much dxm in my early 20s so i cant take OTC cough syrup, fucks me all up. i list it as an allergy.

so when i have a cough or painful sore throat, i always have top get a script for a narcotic

what was your homework?

how to modify science curriculum for students with learning disabilities.


it's easy, I just really don't feel like doing it.

i'm deconstructing Tennyson's Ulysses.

was maybe going to swap but you can keep yours, tbh.

could be worse.

could be joyce.

Joyce is one of my favourites (as is Tennyson). as a writer. not for his breaking-the-etym Ulysses, though.

i also know that oats is fond of him.

but yea this poem is a bit dry.

that sounds much more difficult, but also much more interesting. I miss English homework. I don't even teach science anymore.

yeah Joyce is def one of the GOATS. Portrait of the Artist and Dubliners are my personal fave. Couldn't do Finnegan's Wake, will start Ulysses after I finish the book I'm currently reading (I was told by a professor that I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I read it before I was 25, so I've honored that).

Oxydose @Diode

hated dubliners lol and that was apparently joyce's magnum opus so i never bothered to read anything else he wrote

maybe i need to give it a re-read..

he would probably consider Ulysses his magnum opus. in ambition, if nothing else. A Portrait of the Artist... which was mentioned, is considered (among) his best work, in reception.

haven't read either Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses (but did Chamber Music) & rate him highly.

m'yea... The Sisters, Araby, Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case ( -- thought you woulda liked the last two) & The Dead. Dubliners is a great book.

read Lord of the Flies twice, about 6 years apart, before realising how good it was.

in a nutshell: revisit.

add. @oats i'll wait a year and a bit then, also... though that number/age feels a bit arbitrary.

@oXus you're right - it is an arbitrary age. I think he was just saying don't spoil it with a rudimentary understanding of the finer points of his technique, which I would have inevitably done had I attempted to read it as a freshman in college. Perhaps when I was seasoned and in practice for literary reading around 22 it would have been fine, too. in any case, I have an idea of what it's about and how it's executed, but I'm still eager to read it. I tried Finnegan's Wake twice - the first in high school almost as a challenge, and I couldn't get through the first 50 pages. I tried it again during a winter break in college, thinking I'd somehow detect more to it, but even with greater resolve, I couldn't manage to finish it. Maybe one day it'll make sense, but I'm either too smart or way too stupid to orient myself in it. Now I tend to give a book 50-100 pages before I decide to drop it. how old are you, by the way?
@dead man Ulysses is widely considered to be not only Joyce's best work, but also the best novel ever written. Which of course is incredibly subjective and debatable, but it's worth noting the prestige and accolades that it has received. That being said, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is def worth reading, also considered a top 10-15 novel of all time, and one of my personal favorites. Revisit that, and then Dubliners, and you'll prob like the latter better this time around.

i had a similar experience with Finnegan's Wake. i'll endeavour to read that and Ulysses but will likely wait until after my degree, which will take a while, as i've too much reading to do in between. probably. reading Dickens, Hardy and Bronte's right now, and that's just prose.

24 in little over 3 weeks.

yea can i just echo you in either reading more Joyce or revisiting his work. there.

fuck man, I understand. Especially Victorian lit. Unlike Finnegan's, I can understand and respect the brilliance of Dickens et al, but I still couldn't get into a lot of it. Just too dense and wordy. I liked Vanity Fair a lot though. It sucks juggling all that reading cuz with me I always found that I only really read one thing at a time, and just skimmed/scanned through the other shit. So I "read" a lot of books in college, but didn't actually read them. point being, I should probably give them another go-around, as well.

James Joyce definitely would have said Finnegan's Wake was his masterwork. But no one knows what the fuck he was talking about in it. I've read parts of it and found myself largely lost every time. Then I asked tenured English professors, and they said the same. It's not a wholly lucid book. It's not supposed to be.

Ulysses is widely considered his best, but I prefered A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for its evolving writer's voice. Ulysses really requires academic study to fully grasp, and I don't care for that type of reading. I read it as I read any other book, and I really liked the words but definitely missed some of what they meant.

Dubliners is great, but it's not a reflection on his three novels at all.